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Christian group has '15-foot-tall' surprise in store for 'Church of Trump' DC event

President Donald Trump is expected to be joined by several of his top officials and allies Sunday in Washington, D.C. for Rededicate 250, a national prayer event hosted on the National Mall, and one Christian group is working to erect a “15-foot-tall” surprise for the president in protest.

Organized by Freedom250, a Trump-aligned group that has received millions of taxpayer dollars, the event has been decried by some critics as promoting Christian nationalism. The government watchdog group Public Citizen, for instance, condemned the event as being “less like a traditional religious event and more like a program for the Church of Trump.”

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Trump voter decries president's 'slap in the face' with bid to oust Epstein files champion

President Donald Trump has poured considerable political capital into ousting Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who infamously bucked the president by leading the charge to force the release of the administration's files on Jeffrey Epstein – a move one Trump voter recently condemned as a "slap in the face.”

“We love our congressman, and the fact that the president is trying to pick our next congressman for us is kind of a slap in the face to Kentuckians,” said John Detherage, a 62-year old Kentucky resident who voted for Trump, speaking with The Wall Street Journal in its report Sunday.

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Officials panic as Trump appears ready to authorize 'resoundingly terrible idea': report

With the Trump administration having failed to achieve its stated objectives in its war against Iran, President Donald Trump has increasingly set his sights on a new objective: one he appears ready to authorize a “dangerous mission” to achieve at any moment, but also one that several high-ranking Trump officials think is a “resoundingly terrible idea,” Zeteo reported Saturday.

Trump explicitly called for regime change just moments after first authorizing strikes on Iran in late February, and while the president has claimed to have accomplished that goal, experts have largely dismissed the president’s assertion. Now, Trump appears ready to greenlight an operation to achieve another goal: seizing Iran’s supply of enriched uranium.

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​Trump goes on midnight rampage against GOP lawmaker

President Donald Trump has intensified his retribution campaign against Republican lawmakers who don't toe his line, launching a scathing midnight attack on Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie after a GOP senator lost his race.

"Tom Massie of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country, is an even bigger insult to our Nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who suffered an unprecedented loss tonight by not even being allowed to run in the Republican Primary," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post at 12:40 AM Eastern in which he gloated about Cassidy being barred from seeking reelection in the senate contest. Trump cast Cassidy's exclusion from the primary ballot as unprecedented punishment, attributing it directly to his impeachment vote against Trump during term one.

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Trump 'dumped' too much 'poison' into critical US alliance to save it: ex-GOP strategist

An ex-Republican strategist warned that a critical United States military alliance has already been so damaged by President Donald Trump that it's too late to save it.

"NATO's on the clock," Rick Wilson said in the latest episode of his podcast. "It's got three, two years left, tops. Even when Trump dies, even when he's gone, the poison he dumped into the system is so profound, I don't know how you reverse it."

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'Completely illegal and absurd': Ex-Trump lawyer calls out moves to 'loot the treasury'

A former attorney for President Donald Trump slammed his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and plan to create a $1.7 billion fund.

"It's completely illegal and absurd," attorney Ty Cobb said Saturday on MS NOW. "The case against the IRS is a completely fabricated vehicle for Trump to try to loot the treasury."

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Kash Patel called out for pattern of FBI 'intimidation' aimed at women

FBI Director Kash Patel's war on reporters has exposed a troubling pattern: his FBI has exclusively targeted female journalists who have reported damaging stories about his tenure with investigations — while ignoring similar exposés from male counterparts at major publications.

According to Salon columnist Sophia Tesfaye, three female journalists have been targeted by Patel's FBI despite male reporters from outlets like the Wall Street Journal publishing equally embarrassing details about the embattled director's conduct.

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Three-time Trump voter rips president as ‘naive’ as Iran war decimates GOP stronghold

As was predicted by economists, Trump's war against Iran has sent oil prices surging and squeezed household budgets across the country, including in GOP strongholds like northeastern Colorado where one three-time Trump voter issued the president a particularly scathing nickname, Reuters reported on Saturday.

“He voted three times for Trump, but like many interviewed by Reuters, he considers himself a political independent, saying he distrusts the Republican Party nearly as much as their ⁠Democratic foes,” Reuters’ Brad Brooks wrote in the outlet’s report.

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Trump's 'expansive ambitions' falling apart after a year of crippling losses: WaPo

Donald Trump’s return from Beijing without any provable examples of successful negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping was yet another sign that, whatever lofty plans he had in store for the second year of his second term, they are easier to boast about than achieve.

According to analysis by the Washington Post’s Michael Birnbaum and Isaac Arnsdorf, the China summit didn’t include any measurable wins for a president who has had a rough year so far.

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‘The new toilet paper’: Panic ensues as shortage of essential product appears imminent

Panic spread Saturday as reports suggest that the “next supply-chain headache” could reach the United States soon – one sparked by President Donald Trump’s war against Iran that may risk causing widespread shortages of a critical product used regularly by most Americans.

That product is motor oil, an essential lubricating fluid required to keep anything with an engine – namely vehicles – functioning properly, and outlets such as Yahoo Autos, Axios and others have reported this week on how the U.S. war against Iran may soon bring a shortage of the critical product to U.S. shores.

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Trump’s 'surprise admission' on Iran handed their negotiators a gift: MS NOW

Donald Trump's reported desperation to end the Iran war is allowing Tehran's leaders to take a harder negotiating line — and a candid admission the president made on Fox News this week handed Iranian negotiators a significant strategic gift.

According to MS NOW's Zeeshan Aleem, during an interview with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity on Thursday, Trump revealed his evolving priorities regarding Iran's estimated 970-pound stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

When asked whether the U.S. was considering seizing Iran's uranium, Trump first claimed it would take "a week and a half" to extract using a ground operation. But then he made a stunning admission that undercut his entire negotiating position.

"I don't think it's necessary [to get the uranium], except from a public relations standpoint," Trump said. "I think it's important for the fake news that we get it."

He added: "I'm the one that said we're going to get it, and we're going to get it. We have our eye on it."

In those few words — "I don't think it's necessary" — Trump appeared to abandon a position that has been central to his entire premise for the war. He instantly undermined his insistence on uranium removal as a key term of any peace deal with Iran, Aleem wrote.

Trump's characterization of uranium seizure as merely a "public relations" maneuver suggests he is repackaging a key plank of his negotiation position as window dressing — essentially admitting it's not actually necessary to end the conflict.


According to the report, Iranian negotiators will almost certainly exploit this revelation. If Tehran believes Trump is ambivalent about — or could eventually become indifferent to — removal of Iran's uranium stockpile, Iran has far more incentive to refuse to budge on that element or demand compromises more favorable to Tehran.

Aleem observed that Trump has a documented tendency to grow bored with or abandon protracted international conflicts, and the Iran war appears to be no exception and that each public statement weakens his negotiating leverage.

CBS News insiders fear 'something monumental' coming as Bari Weiss targets top program

A cloud of dread has descended upon CBS News as controversial editor-in-chief Bari Weiss prepares to overhaul "60 Minutes" when the show returns next season — with network insiders warning changes are coming that will upend the venerable Sunday night institution.

According to the Guardian, the current season concludes on Sunday, after which the iconoclastic Weiss is expected to impose her ideological imprint on a program that has operated with editorial autonomy for decades.

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Outrage breaks out as analysts get first look at Trump’s financial disclosures: ‘impeach!’

On Thursday, President Donald Trump disclosed a “flurry” of financial transactions he’d made earlier this year, but on Saturday, Bloomberg correspondent Josh Wingrove unpacked those transactions in greater detail, and in doing so, sparked outrage among critics.

The financial disclosures revealed this week that Trump or his advisers had made “at least $220 million in financial transactions in the securities of major U.S. companies” during the first three months of 2026, Bloomberg previously reported. On Saturday, Wingrove provided additional details on the president’s financial disclosures.

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